Former Xscape group member Kandi Burruss has tapped a number of rappers and Hip-Hop producers for her new untitled album, which is slated to hit stores this Spring.

Burruss announced a deal between her label, Kandi Koated Entertainment and Asylum Records, who will market, promote and distribute the untitled album.

The singer/Real Housewives of Atlanta reality show star has also lined up rappers like Gucci Mane, Rick Ross and Rasheeda to round out the album, which features production by Jazze Pha, Drumma Boy, Nitti, KP, Malay and Blac Elvis.

"I am so excited to be working with Asylum on my new release,” Burruss told AllHipHop.com in a statement. “They loved the music I delivered. Having my own label, Kandi Koated Entertainment, has afforded me the ability to really be true to my craft, sharing my total self with my fans. That's what music should be about."

In addition to striking platinum with former group Xscape, Kandi Burruss has written songs for a number of top artists, including TLC’s hit single “Scrubs” Destiny’s Child’s hit “Bills, Bills, Bills.”

Redd, real name Demetrius Stewart, was in his home with another unidentified individual on the early hours of New Year’s Day. At some point, the two became embroiled in an argument, and the unidentified male allegedly threatened the producer.

Redd then obtained his firearm and killed the man.

Following the shooting, Shawty Redd contacted authorities and turned himself over to Henry County Police.

At press time, no bond has been issued and Redd is awaiting arraignment today (January 2).

Shawty Redd has been a coveted producer for the last decade, arranging tracks for Young Jeezy (“Hypnotize,” “Who Dat, “Trap Or Die”), Snoop Dogg (“Sexual Eruption”), and Gucci Mane (“Trap House,” “Stash House”).

AllHipHop.com will continue following this breaking story.

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(AllHipHop News) A detective on the first-degree murder case of producer Shawty Redd has revealed that only one gun was found in the New Year’s day shooting that took the life of a 35-year-old Detroit man.

Shawty Redd, born Demetrius Stewart, was involved in an altercation at his mansion in Atlanta in the early hours of New Year's Day.

According to reports, Shawty Redd shot and killed the man as the two argued for unknown reasons.

A detective with the Henry County police department confirmed that only one gun was found in the shooting - the one used to kill Damon Martin, of Detroit - and that no weapons were drawn on the hit making producer.

The detective also confirmed that Shawty Redd was the only other person in the house with the man at the time of the shooting.

Shawty Redd is currently being held without bond on first-degree murder.

According to reports, the producer is cooperating with detectives. A bond hearing is slated for January 12.

PHILADELPHIA (AP)—Allen Iverson(notes) was teary almost from the time he sat down, his usual stream-of-consciousness talk now a more subdued style of speaking.

The player who once repeated the word “practice” nearly 20 times during a rambling monologue had little time for one-liners. It was contrary to the image Iverson sculpted over a 14-year career filled with coaching run-ins and contradictions.

Iverson could always somehow get away with his transgressions when he was an MVP and a regular All-Star. At 34 and considered a bench player by his last two teams, the lengthy list nearly ended his career.

When the Philadelphia 76ers, his former team, offered him an NBA lifeline— A.I. snatched his last shot.

“When I had the opportunity to come back here,” Iverson said, a pause as his voice cracked, “I couldn’t turn it down. I’m just happy.”

Iverson returns to the organization he led to the NBA finals in 2001 and won four scoring titles. The 76ere are the only team known to make a serious run at Iverson once he announced his intention to retire last week, a fact that humbled Iverson and made him realize he may have cupped his ears to the roaring crowd for the last time.

“It’s just a bad rap,” Iverson said Thursday at the Wachovia Center. “Once guys in the front office start calling about a player, and you’ve made the mistakes that I’ve made, you could see why that guys were laying off me. I never thought it had anything to do with basketball issues. It was always stuff off the court.”

Iverson will play his first game against Denver on Monday night in a city absolutely thundering over his arrival.

His returned generated the kind of buzz the Sixers haven’t felt in Philly since he was traded in 2006. The Sixers said they had 327,657 page views on their Web site Wednesday once his signing was announced—up from 36,000 the previous Wednesday.

The Sixers, 29th in the NBA in attendance, have not yet sold out Monday’s game. His No. 3 jerseys are expected to be on sale at the team’s merchandise store Monday.

Team president Ed Stefanski again insisted the move was not designed to sell tickets, merchandise or make them relevant in the city sports scene. He simply needed a point guard to replace Lou Williams, out two months with a broken jaw, and Iverson was the best available free agent.

“If the byproduct is we get more attendance, this guy brings more excitement to the building, that’s great,” Stefanski said. “But to consistently have that going forward, you’ve got to win basketball games.”

The Sixers need all the help they can get to avoid totally free-falling out of the Eastern Conference playoff race. The Sixers (5-14) have lost eight straight entering Saturday’s game at Charlotte.

The 10-time All-Star guard who has scored more than 24,000 points signed a non-guaranteed deal with the 76ers on Wednesday, and said he’s ready to prove he can play like the Iverson of old.

“I want to fit in. I want to be a part of any success we have,” Iverson said. “I just want to be one of the guys. I don’t need a whole bunch of praise. I don’t need a whole lot of accolades. I just want to play basketball.”

Iverson will not travel to Charlotte. He will practice Sunday and on Monday pull on his 76ers jersey for the first time since Dec. 6, 2006, in Chicago— when he refused to play in the fourth quarter of what became his final game with the team.

His frosty relationship with the former coach and GM led to his trade to the Nuggets. He played most of last season in Detroit, where he complained about coming off the bench, and had a similar experience in his ill-fated stint in Memphis.

“I always thought it was strange having another uniform,” Iverson said. “I couldn’t feel comfortable with another uniform.”

Stefanski said he didn’t promise Iverson would start, but there’s little doubt he’ll be introduced with four other Sixers against Denver. Iverson has started 877 of 889 career games and said he doesn’t have a role player’s mentality.

“It was so hard for me because I never had to do it my whole life,” Iverson said. “Even from grade school.”

Iverson said he won’t complain in Philadelphia and told coach Eddie Jordan to “just give me an assignment.”

Former Pistons coach Michael Curry and Grizzlies coach Lionel Hollins must be somewhere rubbing their temples.

Iverson was the No. 1 overall pick in the 1996 draft, but his 10 turbulent seasons in Philadelphia were marred by rants about practice, arguments with former coach Larry Brown, arrests and a failed rap career.

“With the mistakes I’ve made in my life, I’ve created a picture of me that’s not me,” Iverson said. “I did a lot of things when I was young that I’m not proud of. But I think those things helped me to be the man that I am now.

“The last couple of years have been hell. All I want to do is play basketball and help the guys that I play with.”

Iverson posted the highest scoring average in Sixers history (28.1), was second on the points list (19,583) and holds the record for 3-pointers (877). He was a seven-time All-Star and won two All-Star game MVPs.

He found some success in Denver, but his career unraveled in Detroit and Memphis. He took an indefinite leave from the Grizzles to deal with a personal matter, never returned, and was set to retire.

Now he’s back.

And the next time he calls it quits, Iverson vows it will be as a Sixer.

“This is where my love is at,” he said.

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A violent feud between rappers Young Jeezy and Gucci Mane came to an end tonight (December 3rd) on Atlanta radio station Hot 107.9, during DJ Drama’s Gangsta Grillz radio show.

Young Jeezy and Gucci Mane have had a feud the dates back to 2005, over the hit single “Icy,” which was supposed to be featured on Young Jeezy’s debut album Let’s Get It: Thug Motivation 101.

Instead, "Icy" appeared on Gucci’s independent 2005 release Back to the Trap House. The feud culminated with Gucci Mane murdering an affiliate of CTE in 2005. He was acquitted of the crime in 2006.

“You know nobody can ever change this history we made, we made classics,” Young Jeezy said of his mended relationship with DJ Drama. “And besides that, we opened up a lane for a lot of these young cats to come into the game. I seen more trappin’ in in the industry now than I ever seen. I know we had a lot to do with this….I just want everyone to know, just by me and you sitting here talking, that’s what men do. Now it’s back to the money, it’s back to the business. I aint gonna lie, I was caught up in my feelings… We gotta make some more history and we gotta open some more doors for these people man.”

DJ Drama, who recorded several Gangsta Grillz mixtapes with Young Jeezy during his rise through Hip-Hop’s underground, became involved in the feud when he decided to release a Gangster Grillz mixtape with Gucci Mane in 2008.

Young Jeezy labeled the Philadelphia-bred, Atlanta-based DJ as a traitor and claimed that the DJ began to act shady after he became famous, a charge which DJ Drama denied.

As a result of his relationship with Gucci Mane, Young Jeezy and DJ Drama also had several altercations at various music industry functions, although, their situation never escalated to the level of the beef between Young Jeezy and Gucci Mane.

“On my end its like even through everything, we weren’t speaking a lot, there was stuff in there. Then I realized we can agree to disagree,” DJ Drama said. “We are letting you know it’s bigger than us. We do what we do for yall. We are about to get so much more money, we are about to make so many more outlets for revenue for the city, for everybody to eat.”

Young Jeezy’s feud with Gucci Mane was much more serious.

The feud over “Icy” saw Jeezy releasing diss records like "Stay Strapped," while Gucci released tracks like "Round One" and "Hurry."

In the aftermath of these records, the pairs feud quickly became violent in May 2005, when Gucci Mane and an associate were allegedly set up and ambushed by men five men, later identified as affiliates of Young Jeezy’s CTE record label.

Gucci and an associate were visiting a woman when the five men stormed the residence with guns and duck tape and pistol whipped the rapper and his associate.

Gucci Mane fired upon the men, striking one, before fleeing the scene.

Days later, a man identified as Henry Lee Clark III was found dead from a gunshot wound behind a local elementary school.

According to reports, Clark, aka Pookie Loc, was still wearing his CTE chain when police found his decomposing body.

Gucci Mane was eventually hit with a murder charge over the shooting but the charge was dropped in January 2006, when Gucci Main's lawyers proved that the rapper acted in self defense.

On the radio tonight, Young Jeezy and Gucci Mane ended their dispute peacefully, when Gucci phoned into the station from jail.

“I’m a 100% down with it [squashing the beef], you know I’m 10 toes forward. I’m with it and I think it’s a great idea and that’s what I’m fittin’ to do. I hope everybody is ready cause it’s back on,” Gucci Mane said to Young Jeezy.

“That’s what it is homie,” Young Jeezy replied. “What’s understood aint gotta be said man. We gonna do this for the city so you just hold your head up. Me and Drama gonna hold it down brah, and that’s what it is.

"All of the recent rumors and accusations that are being circulated about me are 100% false,” the Atlantic Records artist said via his attorneys. “They are disgusting and vile; and they are being spread by individuals with their own sick agendas.”

The statements come two days after Twitter user “AGoldsteinGirl” posted photos of alleged court documents intended to prove that Pleasure P, born Marcus Cooper, had not only been accused of molesting a four year old child, but had also been found guilty of these allegations in a Broward County, Florida court.

The internet accuser, who claimed to be “Laura Goldstein,” the daughter of Pleasure P’s attorney, was the first to raise these accusations.

In addition to posting the documents via Twitter, she also made them available for download and insinuated that her family had received threats since making these flooring accusations.

“The purported documents that are also being circulated are forgeries,” continued the statement released by the offices of Meloni & McCaffrey, P.C. in New York. “I have never met or known anyone by the name of "AGoldstein" or Laura Goldstein or Ashley Goldstein, which I believe are fictitious names,” Pleasure P stated. “I have never been represented by an attorney named Goldstein. For someone to go to such depths to assassinate my character and slander my good name is truly criminal. My attorneys are investigating this matter and will take all necessary and appropriate action to protect my name and reputation."

While entertainment and celebrity blogsites picked up the story, and fans speculated about the validity of these accusations, the remaining members of Pleasure P’s former group issued a statement via their Twitter account which seemed to add validity to the rumor.

The group revealed that contrary to popular belief, it had been their decision to release Pleasure from the group in 2007.

They added, however, that due to an injunction filed by Pleasure P’s legal team, they were not “at liberty to discuss” the circumstances surrounding his expulsion from the group.

Tuesday (December 2) did not bring all bad news for Pleasure P. The newcomer received three nominations for the 2010 Grammy Awards.

His debut solo album The Introduction of Marcus Cooper is up for “Best Contemporary R&B Album” against offerings by Beyonce, Trey Songz, Jamie Foxx and T-Pain.

R&B singer Chris Brown has responded to reports that he called Jay-Z a “cornball” during the rapper’s acceptance speech during the American Music Awards.

Brown‘s “cornball” tweet in question came as Jay-Z accepted the award for Best Male Hip-Hop Artist on November 23.

Last night Brown called into DJ Whoo Kid’s Shade 45 show, where he discussed a number of topics, including his upcoming album Graffiti, his relationship with Rihanna and the alleged Tweet about Jay-Z

“My Twitter didn’t get hacked, people blew it out of proportion,” Brown told DJ Whoo Kid. “I was also commenting on certain things going on the AMA’s but I was still Tweeting randomly about what as going on. So like the homies was out the house and everybody was like ‘oh he’s making an excuse.’ I just said ‘cornball.’ I was talking about homie at all.”

Brown immediately removed the post when his followers began flooding his page with messages.

The Tweet was quickly circulated around the Internet, making headlines.

“At that moment, I started seeing the comments, ‘oh you talking about Jay? You talking about Jay?’ I was like hell nah, then I said let me delete this before this gets out proportion. I don’t need no problems right now, I don’t need no more people cussing me out.

“People just being on some extra s**t.. I was just like man go ahead with all that,” Brown stated. “They blew it up and I was like man whatever.”

Brown has also denied any strained relationship with Jay-Z, because the two have not spoken.

Jay-Z did reportedly have unflattering words for Brown in February, after Brown was charged with punching and biting Rihanna during a spat in Los Angeles.

US Weekly cited unnamed sources that claimed Jay-Z “hit the roof” when he found out about the assault and labeled Brown a “walking dead man” for assaulting Rihanna, whom Jay-Z discovered.

“I never really talked to homie,” Brown said. “It aint no beefs, I just get my money and he gets his.”

“So we celebrating my n***a birthday, but we’re also celebrating the demise of a p***y. R.I.P. to the donkey, we buried him,” Ross stated on stage with Khaled. “It feel good, n***a. Don’t look surprised, you knew we was gonna do it. There’s only one record that can describe the feeling.”

Concluding his victory speech, Ross went into “This Is the Life,” the fourth single from his 2008 gold sophomore LP Trilla.

In January, Rick Ross began his feud with 50 Cent courtesy of “Mafia Music,” where he ridiculed the Queens’ emcee about his relationship with his child’s mother, and the controversy surrounding the fire destruction of his Fort Dix, Long Island mansion.

DJ Khaled was brought into the conflict as well when the Queens mogul had entourage members film Khaled’s mother unknowingly at her job (“A Psychic Told Me”). 50 Cent would later express regret for the act, after receiving negative responses

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Iverson's representatives have told Smith of Iverson's plans on Wednesday.

Iverson "I would like to announce my plans to retire from the National Basketball Association," Iverson said in a statement on StephanA.com, Smith Web site. "I always thought that when I left the game, it would be because I couldn't help my team the way that I was accustomed to. However, that is not the case.

"I still have tremendous love for the game, the desire to play, and a whole lot left in my tank. I feel strongly that I can still compete at the highest level."

Iverson, who has played 14 seasons in the NBA, played three games with the Memphis Grizzlies but complained about coming off the bench. The team then gave him a leave of absence to attend to personal matters. The two sides eventually agreed to part ways and Iverson was waived.

Iverson had been close to signing with the New York Knicks last week but the deal fell through.